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Sold my pre-revenue SaaS

I started Mailboat (now Userping) last year as a small experiment

Though I stopped working on it after 1.5 months, I sold it only recently out of curiosity

And here's what happened:

on June 6, 2023
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    Cool! Congratulations! I have considered to sell Duckist.com and it is pre-revenue. Easy to host just needs someone to do proper marketing. I'll definitely try to go this route

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      Good luck to you Martin

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    Very impressive! I'd love to learn more about the negotiation process and what metrics were used to determine the offer/price.

    1. 1

      Sure I've planned to write it in detail on my newsletter gouthamj.substack.com

      You can subscribe if you'd like

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    Woooh super congrats my friend!

  4. 3

    congratulations! something is better than nothing :-)

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      Haha thanks, Krzysztof

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    Well done! Now kick some ass with Famewall and tell us how it goes!

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    Congratulations! 🎉👏

  7. 2

    cool story very much congratulation

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    Congratulation!

    in which platform did you sell it ?

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      The answer is in Twitter thread ;)

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        Yep I listed it on Acquire.com but it got rejected.

        So the buyer was a customer of Famewall :)

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          Nice work and thanks for sharing the details!!

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    That's awesome!

    What did you used under the hood to deliver the emails AWS SES?

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      Yup it uses SES, Arthur

  10. 2

    Congrats on the outstanding achievement 🤙 May I ask about the figures and the entire process? What if I should sell my own pre-rev 😏

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      The buyer is fine with disclosing the price @NiLL. So I sold it for $4k

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      I've actually sent an email to them asking if it's okay to disclose the price in public. So I'll update it as soon as they reply

      And there's no fixed rule on declaring the price. You can try to negotiate. But @sweatC mentioned that most pre-revenue projects sell anywhere from $1.5K-$2K

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    Congratulations! Inspiring to see!

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